Tyne and Wear HER(8719): Newcastle, The Side, Nos. 5-13 - Details
8719
Newcastle
Newcastle, The Side, Nos. 5-13
Newcastle
NZ26SE
Commercial
Shop
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
Shops and offices. Circa 1855. Sandstone ashlar with Welsh slate roof; brick
chimneys. Italianate style. 3 storeys, 5 bays, the central narrower and containing
open passage to stairs and workshops behind. 4 shops are arcaded with slender
pilasters and leafy capitals supporting elliptical arches, to shops and recessed
entrances. Each floor has pilasters and entablature, those of upper floors with
modillioned cornices, framing round-headed sashes in pilaster surrounds with leafy
capitals; similar carving to impost bands; Windows paired except in central bay.
Painted mirror advertisement in right reveal of Quayside Newsagency at right:
MURATTI'S WORLD RENOWNED CIGARETTES/"ARISTON"/SMOKED BY/ ROYALTY AND NOBILITY/"NEB-KA"/SMOKED BY MILLIONS. LISTED GRADE 2
2517
6390
NZ25176390
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 24/524; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 118